Most people know Nikki Sixx as the bassist and founding member of Motley Crue. Sixx is a producer/songwriter who’s contributed to albums by Trapt, Saliva and Meatloaf.

Many have read about him in the ground-breaking book, ‘The Dirt’, learning how he grew up with a single mom and her abusive boyfriend after his father abandoned him at an early age, then how he was shuttled to various homes, raised by his grandparents before becoming a teenage vandal – breaking into homes, shoplifting and finally expelled from his school for dealing drugs.

“You can’t quit until you try/ You can’t live until you die/ You can’t learn to tell the truth /Until you learn to lie… when you’ve lost it all/ That’s when you finally realise life is beautiful,” we are told on ‘Life is Beautiful’. Nikki along with James Michael who does all the vocals on the album, and DJ Ashba who provides the crackling emotional undertow with his searing guitar work, come together to find the aural equivalent of the book’s psychic underpinning which the music soundtracks. Nikki also reads excerpts from the book, accompanied by some of the most heartfelt and moving music he has written over the course of his remarkable career. ‘The Heroin Diaries’ is an addictive rock’n’roll saga. Class A stuff!

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